The Official Status Thread
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@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
could you find me an example with more brains than brawn?
..... or any brains at all?TIL @Vixen is sapiosexual.
well one without sapience is incapable of giving informed consent......
but yeah. brains are sexy. bodies are great for fun times, but for anything lasting you need brains to back it up.
Really? I find brains having a funny taste.
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
Flag is win
Baba is youGAME OF THE YEAR!
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Roses are red
Violets are you
Flag is win
Baba is youGAME OF THE YEAR!
It's teching programming!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Roses are red
Violets are you
Flag is win
Baba is youGAME OF THE YEAR!
It's teching programming!
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Status: Fantastic work on the profiling, Facebook. I’m sure I’m gonna need those.
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Status: After putting it off for 5 months I finally completed the Canary Mary rematch from Banjo-Tooie, thanks to buying an Xbox Elite controller . Horrible, horrible challenge. The game tells you to mash X as fast as possible, but that's wrong. They way to do it is to start slow, then go at a steady pace throughout. Go too fast and she will go even faster and then complain about you being "too slow". Instead, just keep it steady, being a bit behind her. Then as you near the finish, start going full speed so you finish before her. If you stay too close to her, however, she will speed up even more as soon as you do and finish before you, though.
Now I just need to do the final Stop'n'Swop challenges in case Rare over a decade later makes a new Banjo-Kazooie that makes use of it...
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
They way to do it is to start slow, then go at a steady pace throughout. Go too fast and she will go even faster and then complain about you being "too slow". Instead, just keep it steady, being a bit behind her. Then as you near the finish, start going full speed so you finish before her. If you stay too close to her, however, she will speed up even more as soon as you do and finish before you, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FU5OJxj75c
Edit: Wait, that's not the one I wanted. Oh well...
Maybe this one. Warning, flashing lights...
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Status: A crash inside a call to
glCallList
. Can this be anything other than a driver bug?!
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
I can't book flights online because my first name is one letter and API refuses to believe me
There is a spin doctor to the President here who's called "Cedric O". Every time I hear or see his name, I can't help but think how hard his online life must be, how many times he must have failed to order stuff etc.
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@remi I wonder if people with names like O'Brian end up accidentally triggering SQL injection attacks and the like.
My name doesn't cause too many problems because I have a "real" name that most of my ID goes by, but due to my parents probably being stoned at the time my birth certificate and therefore my passport both have the single letter first name.
I now have a marriage certificate that merges both names, which I'll be able to use to update my name on y passport when it's die for renewal, but that's several years away
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Status: Why is it so impossible for USB-to-SATA adapters with more than one port to give the correct serial number of the drives connected to it?
Seriously, I'm 0 for 2 on what should be fucking basic information.
Fuck, I don't even care if they're accurate, just (consistently) generate them so the OS doesn't see them as multipath devices for fucks sake!
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
I wonder if people with names like O'Brian end up accidentally triggering SQL injection attacks and the like.
I dunno... OTOH if they do, the system they're injecting has to be so badly secured that they're probably better off by not being able to use it!
Also my first name has a diacritic (Rémi), but I usually omit it when filling in online forms, I've seen too many errors. I usually only use it on official French administration websites, mostly because if they fuck up, I can blame them and have fun (they never did though... seems their developers are not totally absolutely completely incapable and know how to handle all characters commonly used in French...).
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@remi I once fixed a bug related to apostrophes in names by removing the half arsed cleanup that somebody else had attempted. Turned out the framework was perfectly capable of handling it and all that the cleaning did was double it up so O'Brian became O''Brian
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Bought a 3D printer yesterday..... and immediately afterwards my GPU shat the bed in my main rig.......
now I have an older spare from my VR rig that i swapped in for now but do I do a straight replace with another 1080 TI? do i upgrade to the 2080 and gain speed but lose that 3GB VRAM i was using for AI shenanigans, but keep the price about the same as the 1080TI? do i go for the 2080TI? or do i do the previously unthinkable and go over to team Red?
..... decisions.... decisions.......
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
O'Brian
Funny you mentioned this ... I currently see one of our applications keeling over if the user D'Hooghe requests certain reports.
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@remi said in The Official Status Thread:
seems their developers are not totally absolutely completely incapable
or there is a someone on their team with a diacritic in his name, like Böbby Täbles or something.
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The bot went down so the OS could apply critical updates.
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My package has been "in delivery" for exactly 8 hours now. WHEN DOES IT GET HERE?
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
My package has been "in delivery" for exactly 8 hours now. WHEN DOES IT GET HERE?
@error_bot xkcd online package tracking
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
The bot went down so the OS could apply critical updates.
You can't just stand there
shooting aliensposting xkcd jokes
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@remi said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
I wonder if people with names like O'Brian end up accidentally triggering SQL injection attacks and the like.
I dunno... OTOH if they do, the system they're injecting has to be so badly secured that they're probably better off by not being able to use it!
Also my first name has a diacritic (Rémi), but I usually omit it when filling in online forms, I've seen too many errors. I usually only use it on official French administration websites, mostly because if they fuck up, I can blame them and have fun (they never did though... seems their developers are not totally absolutely completely incapable and know how to handle all characters commonly used in French...).
I'm currently working a gig at a Swedish gubbermint agency, and their security department required that we block a lot of stuff because of injection risks. But since we need to accept legal text, names of people and places, we can't block much of anything. But I had to go find a looong range of accented characters for the character filter, and I still say whenever the question arise that this is dumb as hell and we should allow any character.
Any system that breaks from the data should be taken offline and fixed.Shit like ' was obviously on the SÄK list of forbidden characters. And gee, wouldn't you know it, people and places have it in their name! I had a long rant at them for being dumb.
The system I'm building is also the first they've run through security tests that came through without anything to complain about in the very first try.
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@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
Bought a 3D printer yesterday..... and immediately afterwards my GPU shat the bed in my main rig.......
Just print a new one
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@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
but.... that's like effort.
not if you use https://benlubar.github.io/mstdn/fonts.html
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@error could we try to at least add content warnings to images that can literally kill people
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@ben_lubar Nobody complained when he posted it... Do we have any accounts that stopped being active?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
Bought a 3D printer yesterday..... and immediately afterwards my GPU shat the bed in my main rig.......
Just print a new one
I just tried and failed to find an STL of any kind of dummy PCI/PCIe card.
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@hungrier I'm doing the @obeselymorbid thing where I'm late to the reading posts party
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm doing the @obeselymorbid thing where I'm late to the reading posts party
You're way too soon for that, you have to wait at least a year
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@error could we try to at least add content warnings to images that can literally kill people
You knew better than to look in a thread called Kink/Fetish AMA.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
Shit like ' was obviously on the SÄK list of forbidden characters. And gee, wouldn't you know it, people and places have it in their name! I had a long rant at them for being dumb.
The "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" thread is . Well, here actually.
(PSA: if anyone has not read it, do it now!)
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@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
Status
Bought a 3D printer yesterday..... and immediately afterwards my GPU shat the bed in my main rig.......
now I have an older spare from my VR rig that i swapped in for now but do I do a straight replace with another 1080 TI? do i upgrade to the 2080 and gain speed but lose that 3GB VRAM i was using for AI shenanigans, but keep the price about the same as the 1080TI? do i go for the 2080TI? or do i do the previously unthinkable and go over to team Red?
..... decisions.... decisions.......
If you're considering Team Red, likely you're not what marketing people call an enthusiast, and will be totally content with GTX 1650 Super that released earlier this year, and will be able to save quite some money. Just make sure it does say Super on the package - the non-Super is minimally less expensive and quite a bit less performant.
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Status: Deleted one of the test users from the system where we had set the user name to a script injection test value. Found a script injection vulnerability.
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@remi: It is informative (and funny), but also pretty useless. Because according to this list, it is literally impossible to handle names "correctly" in computing (what about people whose name is longer than 2^64 characters? what about people who have more than 2^64 different names? what about people whose name include characters that are not in Unicode? what about people who don't have a name at all?).
So the natural reaction would probably be something like "it's impossible to get it right anyways, so why should I even bother trying?".
I think it would be more useful to put it like this:
- Names are complicated, so don't handle them unless you have to.
- They may contain any Unicode character, are not unique, can change, can have variations and a user can have more than one. So don't try to process them, validate them or use them as primary keys. Consider them as opaque strings whose length is at most
REASONABLE_LIMIT
. - Whatever you do, you will have edge cases. Handle them manually or let the user sort it out.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
but.... that's like effort.
not if you use https://benlubar.github.io/mstdn/fonts.html
...... is this another veiled attempt to get me to join that social media
cultsite you keep trying to get me to join without giving me compelling reasons to join?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@remi: It is informative (and funny), but also pretty useless. Because according to this list, it is literally impossible to handle names "correctly" in computing
Yes, I believe that this is the correct conclusion.
So the natural reaction would probably be something like "it's impossible to get it right anyways, so why should I even bother trying?".
If you want to make it to the front page (inb4...), yes, that would be the natural reaction. However that's clearly not your reaction after reading the article, and that's the point of the article.
I think it would be more useful to put it like this:
The article is not about "how to handle names?", because as you rightly pointed out, it's Hard. Your guidelines here are how you interpret this, and I'm ready to wager that without the article listing all the, well, fallacies, you might not have said exactly the same thing. Besides, it all depends why you're handling names. An internal software who's just trying to put an employee name as a tracebility device will definitely not have the same requirements as a public register.
So I believe that the article is useful to make you think (shock and horror!) about names and how to handle them in your application.
Of course if you were expecting a "this programmer has found 10 hints to handle names, all other developers hate him -- hint number 3 will shock you!", then the article is useless, yes.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
Bought a 3D printer yesterday..... and immediately afterwards my GPU shat the bed in my main rig.......
Just print a new one
I may just do that....
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@remi said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@remi: It is informative (and funny), but also pretty useless. Because according to this list, it is literally impossible to handle names "correctly" in computing
Yes, I believe that this is the correct conclusion.
So the natural reaction would probably be something like "it's impossible to get it right anyways, so why should I even bother trying?".
If you want to make it to the front page (inb4...), yes, that would be the natural reaction. However that's clearly not your reaction after reading the article, and that's the point of the article.
I think it would be more useful to put it like this:
The article is not about "how to handle names?", because as you rightly pointed out, it's Hard. Your guidelines here are how you interpret this, and I'm ready to wager that without the article listing all the, well, fallacies, you might not have said exactly the same thing. Besides, it all depends why you're handling names. An internal software who's just trying to put an employee name as a tracebility device will definitely not have the same requirements as a public register.
So I believe that the article is useful to make you think (shock and horror!) about names and how to handle them in your application.
Of course if you were expecting a "this programmer has found 10 hints to handle names, all other developers hate him -- hint number 3 will shock you!", then the article is useless, yes.
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Status: Reading through this year's trends in quality alone time material.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
My package has been "in delivery" for exactly 8 hours now. WHEN DOES IT GET HERE?
Update: arrived. Was a large paint can, not even wrapped in anything, just sent as. I did not buy a paint can. Rejected delivery.
So that's 2 days of waiting down the drain.
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Status: The loudest person I've ever worked with, who I can hear yelling out of the back of his office, around a corner, across the hall, through my door, and over my cubicle wall, came over and closed my door because the training video I was watching on a closed laptop for barely a minute was too loud for him.
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@remi: I get your point. But making you think about a problem is the easy part ; suggesting reasonable solutions to the problem is the hard, and interesting part. That's the difference between a rant and an analysis.
Lack of context is a problem, too. Telling us there are people with non-Unicode names is ry if it turns out that it's really a tiny tribe that doesn't use computing anyways, or you were talking about Prince.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
My package has been "in delivery" for exactly 8 hours now. WHEN DOES IT GET HERE?
Update: arrived. Was a large paint can, not even wrapped in anything, just sent as. I did not buy a paint can. Rejected delivery.
So that's 2 days of waiting down the drain.
you have my curiosity..... if that wasn't what you were looking for..... what package where you expecting?
wait. wait, don't tell me. it's more fun if i make things up with my imagination......
I'm going to imagine it was a shipment from Bad Dragon containing an impressively large fantasy phallus with a dozen vibrating eggs built in and real imitation ejaculate.
it's certainly not true, but my imagination might just be powerful enough to make it true enough for me.
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@Vixen Just a handful of small DIY tools and painting tools... but I'll let you know when my Chance Unflared XL finally gets here.
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Status: Time travelling.
Got an upvote from @obeselymorbid only 4 hours after making the post.
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The most baffling thing to me, listening to Congress, is when they argue about what some guys who died 200+ years ago would have wanted.
Filed under: Why do the framers matter? I don't need frames
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@error_bot smbc more interesting
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SMBC Comics said in http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2256#comic :
Spicy
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Status: Trying to convince front line tech support that they need to forward your report to network operations because there's a routing/peering problem is like believing in Santa Claus.
Also status: unable to reach GitHub because there's a routing/peering problem.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
like believing in Santa Claus.
"You're 25, and you still believe Tech Support actually exists? Seriously, grow up!"